Willa Cather Quotes
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.
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It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.
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I love being called NTR's grandson. I never moved away from his shadow, maybe because I didn't try enough or maybe because I like it this way.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people.
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She followed him around where he played his guitar Till he got so popular they made him a star Then she could only see him on a TV screen And hoped someday that he'd come back to New Orleans Everybody liked her and was knocking on wood But soon there came a baby for Lady B. Goode
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So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.
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Sometimes I claim I write because I put in an application at Sears and they've never called back.
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Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
